Register for this seminar, taking place in Toronto, and gain important communication skills from negotiation to leadership. Enhancing these skills will help you achieve your goals--both business and personal--by strengthening your connection to those around you. Translate your knowledge into successful actions in the business environment.

Taking place at the Crowne Plaza Century Park Shanghai, this symposium focuses on key issues facing actuaries in the Asia region. We've lined up exceptional speakers and put together informative sessions which will help you grow your knowledge and expertise. You'll leave with valuable insight into topics impacting actuaries and the actuarial profession in Asia. Don't miss this chance to earn CPD credit, including professionalism credits.

This boot camp focuses on the 3R (risk adjustment, reinsurance and risk corridors) concepts and uses that discussion to ground ideas from predictive modeling. This is a great way for actuarial professionals to add more value to their organizations. While there has been an increased focus on predictive modeling at industry conferences, the subject lends itself very well to this hands-on learning experience.

This conference, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries and Annuity Systems Inc., is an event designed to give risk-management, product development and valuation professionals an understanding and appreciation of how better to quantify, monitor and manage the risks underlying the variable annuity and equity-indexed annuity products. Register by Oct. 22 and save $200. 

This webcast, sponsored by the Health Section, aims to expand the understanding of risk adjustment accuracy by presenting a methodology to quantify uncertainty in risk assessment. Uncertainty in risk assessment is due to the fact that predictions are not perfect. The presentation will include individual and group (e.g. health plan) level risk scores. At the conclusion of the session participants will have a deeper appreciation of uncertainty in risk scores.

Experts will provide an overview of a recent study to evaluate the ability of a validated and widely used cognitive screening test, the Minnesota Cognitive Acuity Screen (MCAS), to identify applicants with cognitive impairment and its attending elevated mortality risk, while providing positive protective value in the risk selection and underwriting process for those applicants applying for high-face life insurance policies. Webcast participants will gain key insight into the potential this tool offers for improved risk selection in life insurance.

Credit: 1.80

Industry leaders will explain the concept and construction of market-consistent embedded value (MCEV), and explore the methodology by which the practitioner might calculate MCEV in the pricing process. Discussions will focus on its usefulness as a profit/risk measure relative to other real-world profit/risk measures commonly used by insurance companies, its attendant risks, and key implementation issues that may arise in its application.

In this Health Section-sponsored webcast, Greg Kotzbauer, project manager for Health Policy and ACO Demonstrations at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, will discuss recent ACO findings and tools emanating from the collaborative efforts of Brookings Dartmouth's workgroups. This includes the High-Risk & Vulnerable Population and Payment Models workgroups.